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...human spirit in fitting so many obscenities in the most ordinary declarative sentence." This, he says, was the point: Deadwood, S.D., was outside the bounds of the U.S., the law and propriety--just as Milch is now beyond the long reach of the ABC censors who dogged him on NYPD Blue, the show he created with Steven Bochco. Take a group of criminals and scofflaws, mostly men, risking ruin or murder to seek their fortunes--who then blow said fortunes on hookers, craps, dope and booze--and in any century, their epithets will be frequent and stronger than "dagnabbit...
...experience to good use, especially in Deadwood's dialogue, which is vulgar but well crafted, even oddly formal. ("If you're going to murder me, I'd appreciate a quick dying. And not getting et by the pigs. In case there is resurrection of the flesh.") As with NYPD Blue's mannered police slanguage--or, for that matter, iambic pentameter--no human speaks this way. But the writing does what good dialogue should, which is firmly establish its own world and its own logic...
...NYPD BLUE Ratings: [down] 23% It jumped the shark in Season 6 (it's now on 10), when Sipowicz's wife was killed by a stray bullet. Now Andy's on his fourth partner--and getting remarried. The edge is gone. [3 SHARKS...
...their money where their mouths are and do more to celebrate those who risk their lives for a living than buy them off with hollow praise. That, or let’s hope a giant speed trap staffed by the contract-less members of the NYPD awaits the buses of the Republican Party’s Antiquarian Road Show come convention-time next summer. Preferably somewhere in Harlem...
Mancini said that the NYPD offers $34,514 starting salaries, among the lowest for large metropolitan forces in the country. Meanwhile this smaller, less experienced force has been asked to work harder covering everything from traffic accidents to counter-terrorism, to give up vacation days for further training in these far-flung fields, and all this without proper equipment or a contract...